Necks and Ropes

   Michael watched as one of the Bedouins calmly started to cut Arab girl’s throat. Apart from her gurgling and her blood spraying he heard nothing. The man with the knife knew his business. He cut through girl’s neck slowly, moving the knife back and forth until the blade reached the bone. The girl was still conscious and her brown eyes were open wide as she saw her own blood spraying on the ground. He watched her breasts bounce as the man resumed cutting. He sawed through cartilage with little difficulty and the girl’s eyes froze open as he finally cut off her head. The headless corpse shuddered several times and fell, the neck stump still pumping blood. The man looked at the girl’s face and held the head by the hair for Michael to see. He impaled the head on a spike and left.
   Michael turned off his camera and walked to the village elder. He gave him money and got back to his jeep. Filming executions was his hobby and it paid well. He got back to his hotel in Karachi and found a courier waiting for him.
“You have a job for me?” he asked the man when they were alone.
   The Chinese want to make another snuff film,” said the man. “You will get five thousand in cash if you film it.” Okay,” said Michael. What else do you have for me?”
   “Just this snuff film,” the man said. Its very important. Many very rich people will be there to see it. They are going to get some real young Asian girls and hang them naked. They will be strung up one by one. Make sure you film each having sex, being prepared, noosed and strangling as they are suspended. You can do that?”
“I can,” said Michael. “Here is first class ticket to Thailand where it will happen. Enjoy.”
   On the plane Michael examined his computer files. He looked at the faces of young European, Asian, Arab, Indian, Hispanic women and girls. Each picture was labeled with her name, age and method of death. Many of them committed suicide by hanging, others were hanged or strangled by gangs or individual killers. He replayed one of his favorite files depicting execution by hanging in one of the Malaysian provinces. Four naked Asian females stood crying on the trapdoor as the prison guards slipped nooses around their necks. They stood with ropes around their necks for what seemed like a long time and suddenly, the trapdoor fell and they became suspended. He could see their reddening grimacing faces and naked bodies jerking at the ends of their ropes. Legs kicked and bladders and bowels emptied. The guards turned the hanging bodies on their ropes, commenting on the way how they died and left them hanging for another hour. Michael selected another file and watched as Japanese killer named Tokyo Hangman cut down a body of a young Japanese schoolgirl he had hanged. Removing the rope from her neck, he spread her legs and entered her, performing an intercourse. When he was ready, he opened the dead girl’s mouth and filled it with his sperm.
Michael turned the computer off and went to sleep.
    Arriving in Thailand, he checked into his hotel and called his contact. Two Chinese men arrived and drove him to the outskirts of the city into a large guarded house of local multi millionaire Kan Po. Michael went into the specially prepared hanging room where over last five years more than 30 women and girls strangled to death. Wire nooses were tied to a long metal pipe and under each noose stood a wooden crate. Michael set up his camera and watched men and women fill the room. He recognized senators, models and few other celebrities, and many Asian businessmen. They all stood sipping their drinks and smoking cigarettes. Kan Po greeted them. “You all know why we are here, ladies and gentlemen, he said to them. “With overpopulation and high birth rate of poor families that can produce nothing, we help the governments with their problems by showing you real death by hanging. Young girls we hang today are for your enjoyment. After their death you will be able to enjoy their bodies as long as you like. You will receive a copy of the hanging. Now let’s welcome our first victim Su Chao from Taiwan.”
   Two men entered escorting a naked Asian girl. She was about 13 or 14 with skinny body and good face. Michael filmed her carefully and waited.
   The girl was helped to stand on the crate and one of the men inspected her hands tied behind her back. The second man slipped the noose around her neck and pulled it tight. The girl winced and tried to say something but the man kicked the crate from under her.
   There was no drop and Su Chao simply became suspended one foot over the floor. She gurgled and grimaced it pain as the noose tightened. Her body started to jerk and her face turned red and purpled up as she gradually strangled. Every muscle of her young tight body was moving and she turned on her wire trembling in her death throes. Her feet kicked one more time and she relaxed in death.
    When the second girl was brought in, she resisted after seeing the hanged body of Su Chao. This girl was from Vietnam and her name was Nai Peong. Although much younger than the first hanged girl, she put up a fierce resistance and only calmed down when the noose went taut around her neck. Michael watched as she strangled beside the first hanged girl. Her head tilted sideways and her tongue bulged out for all to see. The third girl was from Japan named Noriko Honda. She didn’t fight and jerked only several times before her bladder let go. The last girl was from India and for reason Michael could not explain it took her a long time to stop kicking, nearly five minutes.
   When the execution part was over, the guests retired to the viewing room while servants took down and washed the bodies. When his job was done, he was paid in cash and was delivered back to the city. He again watched the execution on tape and after lunch asked for a girl for the night. A pretty Thai teenage girl arrived at his suite and he screwed her long and hard. Walking the next day in the suburbs of the town, he found a very pretty young girl from a poor family who committed suicide by hanging. He reached for her neck and felt muscles and veins bulging under the rope squeezing her soft, young throat.
   Michael reached for his camera and started to take pictures.

Copyright by A. Babekova (2004).

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